Move with Love, Not Fear | Climate Investing & What Matters in Leadership | Marie Cheong

In this episode of the Bee Formless™ Flow Driven VC Podcast, I sat down with Marie Cheong to explore life, leadership, business and investing from the inside out, and what becomes possible when love expands your courage more than fear can contain it. What opened up for me in this conversation was how often we hold ourselves back from the very work we are here to do, telling ourselves the problem is for someone else to solve. Marie shared how becoming a mother to Finn shifted something profound in her, opening up a much bigger capacity for love, and what if she could build ventures that decarbonise the world?I loved how Marie spoke about success, in years and decades, in the founders we back, the economy we help reshape and the planet we hand to the next generation. We also touched on something deeply important around women in venture, because as Marie said so clearly, once women are in the arena, the challenges of building are the same, and the gap so often starts much earlier in who backs themselves to step forward, who has champions around them, and who says yes.The Shape Shift in motionAt the heart of this conversation was a shift from fear and self-holding back, to love-led courage and mission.A shift from seeing climate as someone else’s problem to solve, to building ventures, teams and capital around the future we actually need.This is how that shift unfolded through the Bee Formless™ methodology:LEARN (Letting go)✨ Purpose becomes clearer at the intersection of what you are good at, what energises you and what the world needs.✨ Love can expand your courage and loosen the grip of professional fear.✨ Southeast Asia still needs growth, and that growth is still too tightly linked to carbon emissions.UNLEARN (Reimagine, create & reshape)✨ The belief that climate work belongs only to researchers, scientists or government.✨ Reimagine investing as building missions, ventures and ecosystems that can reshape whole sectors.✨ Reshape growth so it becomes less extractive and more regenerative for the planet.RELEARN (Test & implement)✨ Say no to paths that do not align and say yes before all the ducks line up when the mission is right.✨ Be a sponge, because expertise can be built in service of purpose.✨ Back founders who are willing to bet on themselves through setbacks, hard calls and long timelines.ACTIVE RECOVERY (Reflect & reset)✨ Where are you still telling yourself that the work you care about is for someone else?✨ What are you choosing from fear instead of love?✨ Are you measuring success by this week’s setback, or by what you will hand to the next generation?About Marie CheongCo-founder & Partner at Wavemaker Impact, Southeast Asia’s first VC-backed climate venture builder creating 100×100 companies.Where to find more from Marie🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-cheong-06141b36/🌐 https://wavemakerimpact.com/💭 Where are you still waiting for permission to step into the work that already knows it matters to you?If something is shifting for you start with Strategic Shape Shift Diagnostic: https://calendly.com/beeformless/strategicshapeshiftdiagnostic#climateinvesting #climatetech #venturecapital #venturebuilding #leadership #womeninvc #beeformless #flowdrivenvc #purposeledbusiness #regenerativefuture